The Oxford Concordance Program (OCP)
was first released in 1981 and was a result of a project started
in 1978 by
Oxford University Computing Services
Oxford University Computing Services (OUCS) until 2012 provided the central Information Technology services for the University of Oxford. The service was based at 7-19 Banbury Road in central north Oxford, England, near the junction with Ke ...
(OUCS) to create a machine independent text analysis program for producing word lists, indexes and concordances in a variety of languages and alphabets.
In the 1980s it was claimed to have been licensed to around 240 institutions in 23 countries.
History
OCP was designed and written in
FORTRAN by
Susan Hockey
Susan is a feminine given name, from Persian "Susan" (lily flower), from Egyptian '' sšn'' and Coptic ''shoshen'' meaning "lotus flower", from Hebrew ''Shoshana'' meaning "lily" (in modern Hebrew this also means "rose" and a flower in general), ...
and Ian Marriott of Oxford University Computing Services in the period 1979–1980 and its authors acknowledged that it owed much to the earlier
COCOA
Cocoa may refer to:
Chocolate
* Chocolate
* ''Theobroma cacao'', the cocoa tree
* Cocoa bean, seed of ''Theobroma cacao''
* Chocolate liquor, or cocoa liquor, pure, liquid chocolate extracted from the cocoa bean, including both cocoa butter and ...
and
CLOC (University of Birmingham) concordance systems.
During 1985–86 OCP was completely rewritten as version 2 to increase the efficiency of the program, a version was also produced for the IBM PC called Micro-OCP.
The Oxford Concordance Program Version 2
S. Hockey J. Martin
Literary and Linguistic Computing, Volume 2, Issue 2, 1 January 1987, pp. 125–131, https://doi.org/10.1093/llc/2.2.125
Published: 01 January 1987
See also
* Concordance (publishing)
A concordance is an alphabetical list of the principal words used in a book or body of work, listing every instance of each word with its immediate context. Concordances have been compiled only for works of special importance, such as the Vedas ...
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